Synopsis

Icelandic director Dagur Kori's portrait of Noi, a strikingly individual seventeen-year-old rebel drifting through life in a bleak, extremely remote town covered in a perpertual layer of snow and ice. Noi is expelled from school, reducing his social contact to flawed and ambivalent relationships with his widowed alcoholic father and a distant fondness for his slightly batty grandmother... until he meets Iris, a city girl who has come home after an unspecified incident to stay with her father in the town. Noi's dreams of escape, however, end up in farcical failure - until a natural disaster occurs that changes his world forever.